American television sports announcer
Dave Armstrong
(born May 10, 1957 in
Detroit
,
Michigan
) is a former American television
sports announcer
for professional and college sports. He spent nine years as the play-by-play announcer for two
Major League Baseball
teams (
Kansas City Royals
and
Colorado Rockies
), in the
NFL
he has worked with both the
Seattle Seahawks
and the
Kansas City Chiefs
broadcasting regular and pre-season games and also announced several games for the
NBA’s
Denver Nuggets
. He also broadcast
Big 12
college basketball games for
ESPN Regional Television
and
Big 12 Now
and called games in this conference from 1988 up until his retirement in 2022. His signature “Wow!” is known as the exclamation mark on exceptional plays.
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Career
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Armstrong graduated with a B.A. in Broadcasting from
John Brown University
and began his career working in
radio
and
television
in the
Midwest
. He served as the program director for
KKOY (AM)
/
FM
in
Chanute, KS
before moving to KAYS-TV in
Hays, KS
then on to
KSNW
-TV in
Wichita
as the Sports Director. During his time with KSNW-TV, he began doing play-by-play for professional
soccer
and many collegiate sports. In 1988, Armstrong’s sports broadcasting career took off when he joined
Raycom Sports
to do play-by-play for
Big 8
(now the
Big 12
)
college basketball
. He eventually added nearly every college sport to his list of professional credits:
Football
,
Baseball
,
Wrestling
,
Volleyball
,
Tennis
and
Track and Field
. Armstrong also called the televised games on the
Jayhawk Network
for the
Kansas Jayhawks
from 1993 until 2022. He has done play-by-play for
ESPN
,
Prime Network
,
Fox Sports
and the
American Sports Network
calling games in the Big 12, the
Big East
, the
Big Ten
and the
ACC
.
His professional sports credentials included spending three seasons as the television voice of Major League Baseball’s Kansas City Royals (1993?1995) followed by six seasons with the Colorado Rockies (1996?2001). In addition, Armstrong did play-by-play in the NFL with the Seattle Seahawks in 1992 and the Kansas City Chiefs in 2009, as well as in the NBA, when he was a fill-in announcer during the 1996 - 2001 seasons with the Denver Nuggets. Armstrong is a member of the
National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association
.
Armstrong retired from broadcasting on November 28, 2022; the last event he called was an 87-55 victory by
Kansas
over
Texas Southern
in men's college basketball.
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Other work
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In addition to his sports announcing work, Armstrong is also an
author
and
speaker
. His book,
“Driving From Here to Wow: Looking at Life Through the Windshield”
(2008), is an inspirational and humorous account of many of his life experiences ? both personal and professional. Armstrong also frequently emcees for corporate and charitable events throughout the country, speaks at youth
sports camps
, does commercial voice work for documentaries and provides the voice for
promotional videos
developed for
corporations
and
trade associations
.
Legal issues
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In 2013, Armstrong was charged with assault after getting into a fight at
Fred Arbanas Golf Course
.
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